The 10 best ... + Rembrandt | The Guardianhttps://www.theguardian.com/culture/series/the-10-best+artanddesign/rembrandt
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The 10 best love paintingshttps://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/feb/14/the-10-best-love-paintings-valentines-rembrandt-watteau-renoir-chagall-magritte
<p>In honour of Valentine’s Day, cast your adoring eyes over the sweetest representations of romance – and its dark sides – on canvas</p><p>Love is patient, love is kind: this is the visual embodiment of those great verses from Corinthians so often read at weddings. Rembrandt’s masterpiece is loving in its every brushstroke. About his young couple we know very little – who they were, whether she was a bride, whether they were actually Jewish – but this image goes beyond portraiture in any case. Their faces are radiant with adoration. Their gestures are beautiful: his hand gently placed on her breast, hers tenderly covering it. They are themselves on that day, and yet universal. The painting is a kind of secular altarpiece, an inspiration to patience, humility and love.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/feb/14/the-10-best-love-paintings-valentines-rembrandt-watteau-renoir-chagall-magritte">Continue reading...</a>PaintingValentine's DayRené MagritteRembrandtMarc ChagallPierre-Auguste RenoirJean-Antoine WatteauFrida KahloGustav KlimtArtArt and designCultureSun, 14 Feb 2016 09:00:13 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/feb/14/the-10-best-love-paintings-valentines-rembrandt-watteau-renoir-chagall-magrittePhotograph: AlamyPhotograph: AlamyLaura Cumming2016-02-14T09:00:13ZThe 10 best disputed artworkshttps://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/oct/31/the-10-best-disputed-artworks
<p>As Greek efforts to reclaim the Parthenon Marbles receive a boost from Amal Clooney, Laura Cumming considers other artworks caught up in legal and artistic wrangling</p><p>Have we missed an artwork from the list? Leave your suggestion in the comments below and it could feature in the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/culture/series/readers-suggest-the-10-best">alternative list</a> next week</p><p><strong>The Parthenon Marbles<br></strong>The great frieze of figures removed from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin in the early 19th century remains the most perennially disputed of all artworks, the arguments as divided as the sculptures themselves – the goddess Iris’s head is in Athens, her body in the British Museum; Poseidon’s torso is split between them. Defenders argue that Elgin bankrupted himself to save the marbles from local destruction, with full Greek authority, and London is their legal home. The opposition (which has included Byron, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJd63IrK4KY&amp;noredirect=1">Christopher Hitchens</a> and of course now the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/13/parthenon-marbles-hollywood-amal-alamuddin-george-clooney-greece">Clooneys</a>) argues that the marbles were literally “ripped off” the Parthenon, and ruinously scoured, and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/19/return-the-elgin-marbles-to-athens-helena-smith">must be returned</a> to Greece.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/oct/31/the-10-best-disputed-artworks">Continue reading...</a>ArtArt and designCultureRembrandtWilliam ShakespearePablo PicassoRaphaelHenri MatisseDamien HirstPaintingSculptureFri, 31 Oct 2014 12:00:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/oct/31/the-10-best-disputed-artworksPhotograph: Martin ArglesThe Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon on display at the British Museum.Photograph: Martin ArglesThe Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon on display at the British Museum.Laura Cumming2014-10-31T12:00:00ZThe 10 best art auctions – in pictureshttps://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2013/may/25/10-best-art-auctions-in-pictures
<p>From Urban Art at Bonhams and Damien Hirst at Sotheby’s, to Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds and 10,000 of Andy Warhol’s personal belongings</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2013/may/25/10-best-art-auctions-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a>ArtEdvard MunchDamien HirstBanksyRembrandtAndy WarholCultureSat, 25 May 2013 15:00:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2013/may/25/10-best-art-auctions-in-picturesPhotograph: Stefan Wermuth/ReutersSotheby's employees pose for a photograph with Edvard Munch's painting "The scream" at Sotheby's auction house in London April 12, 2012 Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/ReutersPhotograph: Stefan Wermuth/ReutersSotheby's employees pose for a photograph with Edvard Munch's painting "The scream" at Sotheby's auction house in London April 12, 2012 Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/ReutersAs chosen by Claire Kohda Hazelton, writer2013-05-25T15:00:00ZThe 10 best paintings for winter cheerhttps://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/jan/12/10-best-paintings-winter-cheer
The Observer's art critic chooses some works to chase away the darkness. Nominate your favourites below<p><a href="http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/vincent-van-gogh/still-life-with-basket-and-six-oranges-1888" title="">These oranges</a> are incandescent, so bright you take a dazed step backwards in the gallery. The white cloth scintillates, racing up towards the brilliant blue aura of a ship-shaped basket formed of twining,&nbsp;dancing willows. The fruits form a&nbsp;troupe of glowing spheres, apparently lit from within by their own vitamin C. Even the walls seem to be watching the&nbsp;show, admiring the celluloid&nbsp;crackle of&nbsp;sunshine on peel, the singular beauty&nbsp;of each fruit, and the sensational all-together-now performance. Van Gogh turns his winter&nbsp;fruits into a modest miracle.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/jan/12/10-best-paintings-winter-cheer">Continue reading...</a>ArtWilliam HogarthHenri MatisseVan GoghJMW TurnerPieter Bruegel the ElderRembrandtArt and designCultureSat, 12 Jan 2013 19:05:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/jan/12/10-best-paintings-winter-cheerPhotograph: Private CollectionBasket with Six Oranges (1888). Photograph: Private CollectionPhotograph: Private CollectionBasket with Six Oranges (1888). Photograph: Private CollectionAs chosen by Laura Cumming2013-01-12T19:05:00Z